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Ben's PhD viva

Congratulations to Ben on Successfully Defending His Dissertation!

Last modified: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:08:08 BST

Neuromod+ Early Career Researcher (ECR) award

Steven Errington have been awarded the EPSRC/MRC-funded Neuromod+ Early Career Researcher (ECR) award to present at the Optogen conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and to advance the network with the optogenetic community.

Last modified: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:18:00 BST

New Paper

Our new paper 'Evolutionary constrained genes associated with autism spectrum disorder across 2,054 nonhuman primate genomes' has been published in Molecular Autism.

Last modified: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:52:48 BST

Marmoset Workshop on Biomedical Research 2025

Marmoset Workshop on Biomedical Research 2025 was organised on the 30th of January, 2025 at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University, funded by Neuromod + ECR and British Council RENKEI Mobility grants.

Last modified: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:31:04 BST

BBSRC-NSF/BIO lead agency grant from January 2025

The lab will be supported by a four-year BSRC-NSF/BIO Lead Agency US-UK partnership grant from 2025 January, "Neuronal Circuits and Mechanisms for Auditory Memory and Prediction".

Last modified: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:08:17 GMT

Neuromod+ Early Career Researcher (ECR) awards

EPSRC-funded Neuromod+ ECR Awards Advance Marmoset Preclinical Models and International Marmoset Workshop

Last modified: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:48:29 GMT

British Council RENKEI Mobility Grant

Advancing AI Voice Technology for Aging Populations: British Council RENKEI Mobility Grant fuels UK-Japan collaboration

Last modified: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:08:23 GMT

Ben receives the Young Investigator Award from the EBBS

Ben receives the Young Investigator Award from the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) and presented at FENS 2024

Last modified: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 23:05:25 BST

Zhipeng was selected for ICPBR Summer School

Zhipeng was selected for the International Center for Primate Brian Research (ICPBR) Summer School in Shanghai, China.

Last modified: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 09:44:37 BST

NNN seminar “Molecular Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Storage” by Prof Ted Abel

“Molecular Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory Storage” by Prof Ted Abel at Neuroscience Neurodisability and Neurological Disorders Theme Seminar

Last modified: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:50:53 GMT

Holmes Lectures for 10- to 14-year-olds

The 2024 Holmes Lecture "HUMANS VS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Lecture 1: Humans: Can you learn to train your brain? "was given by Dr Yuki Kikuchi and Ben Slater on 17 January.

Last modified: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:33:30 GMT

EPSRC/MRC-funded CloseNIT grant support on Marmoset Closed-loop Project

EPSRC/MRC-funded CloseNIT grant support on “Closed-loop Auditory Stimulation to Modulate Amygdala-Frontal Synchrony in Free-Moving Marmosets”

Last modified: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 18:59:51 BST

New Preprint

New Preprint: 'Evolutionary Constraint Genes Implicated in Autism Spectrum Disorder Across 2,054 Nonhuman Primate Genomes' Now Available on bioRxiv

Last modified: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:25:58 GMT

SfN 2023 Washington DC

Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2023 Washington DC, USA

Last modified: Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:28:25 GMT

Computational Psychiatry Conference 2023

The Computational Psychiatry Conference was held in Dublin, Ireland from July 6-8, 2023. An incredible number of computational psychiatry approaches were presented to advance treatments for mental illnesses.

Last modified: Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:57:30 BST

FMS REDA Funded Outreach Event at the Scent & Science Festival, Haltwhistle

Congratulations to our lab members on a successful science outreach event funded by the FMS Research Development Excellence Award

Last modified: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:48:10 BST

FMS Research Excellence Development Awards (REDA)

The lab has been awarded the FMS Research Excellence Development Awards (REDA) for our project "Development of public engagement platforms to disseminate translational neuroscience research using animal models."

Last modified: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:59:36 BST

University EDI Award 2023

Dr Yuki Kikuchi received the Univerity Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Champion Award

Last modified: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:55:08 BST

MRC Programme Grant support on ‘Neuronal Circuit for Perceptual Inference’

The lab will be supported by a four-year Multiple-PI MRC programme grant on ‘Neuronal Circuit for Perceptual Inference’ from January 2023, £1.8M

Last modified: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:40:43 GMT

SfN 2022 San Diego

Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2022 San Diego, USA

Last modified: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:29:27 BST

Recruiting two Post-Doctoral Positions at Newcastle Univ. and Univ. of Iowa

Last modified: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:20:31 GMT